Low-Power FPGA-Implementation of atan(Y/X) Using Look-Up Table Methods for Communication Applications

  • Authors:
  • R. Gutierrez;J. Valls

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Physics and Computer Architecture, Miguel Hernandez University, Elche, Spain 03202;Department of Electronic Engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Grao de Gandía, Spain 46730

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Signal Processing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents an architecture for the computation of the atan(Y/X) operation suitable for broadband communication applications where a throughput of 20 MHz is required. The architecture takes advantage of embedded hard-cores of the FPGA device to achieve lower power consumption with respect to an atan(Y/X) operator based on CORDIC algorithm or conventional LUT-based methods. The proposed architecture can compute the atan(Y/X) with a latency of two clock cycles and its power consumption is 49% lower than a CORDIC or 46% lower than multipartite approach.